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"Was this well done of your lady?" Roman general Agrippa barks at a servant after discovering the sumptuously attired body of Egyptian queen Cleopatra, who had taken her own life by poison. "Extremely well, as befitting the last of so many noble rulers," she replies.

When Robert Guediguian unleashed his latest film, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, at the Cannes Film Festival last month, critics were quick to describe it as the veteran French filmmaker's return to his roots.

When Wilson Yip Wai-shun turned up at the Hong Kong Film Awards on Sunday, he was greeted like royalty. With his two Ip Man films - the latter for which he earned a best director nomination - he became one of the few Hong Kong filmmakers to have generated nine-digit returns at the mainland box office.

A growing public desire to see candidates besides Henry Tang Ying-yen and Leung Chun-ying vying to become the next chief executive has encouraged others like Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee to fancy their chances, observers say.

As the Dutchman behind The American, Anton Corbijn is more than just the latest director hired to make George Clooney look good. With a CV that sounds like most people's CD collections, he's shot music videos, styled album covers and designed stage sets for everyone from Depeche Mode to Nirvana and Coldplay.

Action star and martial artist Donnie Yen Ji-dan is the latest of the city's big names to be immortalised in wax. Yen, who can also be seen wielding his fists as Master Ip in his latest movie Ip Man 2, joined his wax counterpart for the unveiling at Madame Tussauds Hong Kong.

Before filming even starts on Wong Kar-wai's new film The Grand Master, which is his version of kung fu teacher Ip Man's story, lead actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai (pictured) has already sustained a project-related injury. During practising sessions on some wing chun moves with five martial-arts trainers on Monday, Leung, 47, broke his left forearm when one of the trainers' kicks connected.

Tony Leung Chiu-wai's new wing chun regimen startled his mother-in-law recently. Leung, 46, who married actress Carina Lau Ka-ling last July, has been training hard to prepare for his role as wing chun master Yip Man in Wong Kar-wai's new biopic.

After defeating all opponents at the holiday box office, Ip Man will return to fight again. Mandarin Films has announced it will fast-track a sequel on Bruce Lee's martial arts master after the Donnie Yen Ji-dan vehicle topped the box-office tally in Hong Kong, Singapore and, most significantly, on the mainland.

Ip Chun (right) gives two thumbs up to the movie Ip Man. The eldest son of the wing chun master who trained Bruce Lee was emotional after viewing a trailer of the eponymous biopic - starring Donnie Yen Ji-dan (left) and due out on December 19 - at a press conference for the Mandarin Films production on Friday. 'I have seen some raw footage of the film,' Ip Chun, who lives in Kwun Tong, said.